(Reprint from Bangor Daily News 10/5/2015) DOVER-FOXCROFT - The town of Dover-Foxcroft has been awarded a $240,000 grant on behalf of a new manufacturing company that makes wood fiber cleaning cloths, the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development announced Friday. Read more »
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) approved 4 new award applications in September 2015, totaling $92,414 in awards to companies from across Maine to advance new product and process development in Aquaculture and Marine Technologies, Composite Material Technologies, and Environmental Technologies. biotechnology and advanced technologies for forestry and agriculture. This round of MTI awards leveraged $910,658 of matching contributions from the award recipients. Read more »
(Reprint from Portland Press Herald 10/2/2015) - Rapport, a startup company in Portland that develops software to track sustainability, walked away with a check for $100,000 from AOL co-founder and billionaire Steve Case in an event that capped a daylong celebration of entrepreneurship in Maine. Read more »
(Reprint from Mainebiz 9/24/2015) - AOL founder Steve Case's investment company, Revolution, announced on Tuesday the eight Maine startups that will compete for a $100,000 investment during the company's upcoming pitch competition tour. Read more »
(Reprint from Portland Press Herald 9/23/2015) - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has made a four-year, $1.6 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory to expand its course offerings in mammalian genetics, genomics and associated technologies. Read more »
Introducing "Maine Accelerates Growth". Read more »
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) approved 3 new grant applications in August 2015, totaling $15,000 in awards to entrepreneurs from across Maine to advance new product and process development in biotechnology and advanced technologies for forestry and agriculture. This round of MTI awards leveraged $18,910 of matching contributions from the award recipients. Read more »
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) approved 7 new grant applications in July 2015, totaling $32,600 in awards to entrepreneurs from across Maine to advance new product and process development in biotechnology, composite materials technology, environmental technology, information technology, and precision manufacturing technology. This round of MTI awards leveraged $59,364 of matching contributions from the award recipients. Read more »
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) approved 5 new grant applications in June 2015, totaling $65,120 in awards to entrepreneurs from across Maine to advance new product and process development in biotechnology, environmental technology, and information technology. This round of MTI awards leveraged over $87,850 of matching contributions from the award recipients.
Read more »
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) approved four new awards from its Cluster Initiative Program (CIP) for collaborative projects that boost Maine’s high-potential technology-intensive clusters. Awards made under the CIP program support the success of Maine businesses by funding joint work of companies, service providers, research laboratories and educational institutions and expanding the infrastructure that helps them to thrive. This round of CIP awards leveraged $3,225,100 in matching contributions from the award recipients. Read more »